Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Pit stop - focus on language

The following 28 excerpts have been taken from your translations (Assignment 3), and all include some language errors. Copy paste them to your blog and try to improve the grammar, punctuation and word choices


1. The chimpanzees couldn't recognize macaques's faces easily even though they live in neighboring cages. --> The chimps couldn't easily recognize the macaque's faces even though they live in neighboring cages.

2. In humans, face identification is based on fast recognition of whole face.--> Facial recognition is based on quick recognition of the whole face in humans.

3. It was disturbing how chimpanzees found banana's as fast as human faces --> It was alarming when the chimps found the bananas as fast as human faces.

4. A human understand faces faster and in a different way, than other figures. --> A human recognizes faces quicker and differently than other objects.

5. even if this ape specie lives alongside in the cage --> Even if these apes live alongside in the cages.

6. Human being perceives faces faster and in different way than the other characters. --> Humans perceive faces faster and differently than other characters.

7. ...when Japanese Masaki Tomonaga and Tomoko Imura teached three chimp-females to find for example cars, bananas and faces from among the other pictures. -->  when Japanese Masaki Tomonaga and Tomiko Imura taught three female chimpanzees to find cars, bananas, and faces, for example among other pictures.

8. Were it the faces of humans or those of the same species, the chimps noticed the pictures that were taken from straight forward better than those taken from the profile. Which indicates that eye-contact is one of the factors that raises the chimps awareness. --> The chimps noticed the pictures of the faces of humans or those of their own species better from straight forward, rather than the profile.

9. Earlier it was thought that it was only our feature but now it has turn out that also chimpanzees are able to perceive faces as effectively as humans.-->  Earlier, that skill had been viewed as inclusive only to humans, but now we know that chimpanzees also recognize faces with human-like efficiency.

10. Unexpectedly, the chimpanzees found human faces as well than other chimpanzee's faces --> Unexpectedly, the chimps recognized human faces as well as those of their own.

11. "These results are worth notice when discussing the development of social intelligence. Both species may use facial information in their social life in the same manner", Tomonag from Kioto's university's primate research institute determines in the research bulletin. --> ''These results are worth the notice when discussing the progress of social intelligence. Both species might make use of the facial information in their social lives similarly,'' determines Tomonaga, who works at the primate research institution at the University of Kyoto, in the research bulletin.

12. A human recognize faces faster and a little different way than others.--> Humans recognize faces faster and a tad differently than other species.

13. Chimpanzee react slower to macaque-faces than human-baby faces, even they have never seem baby before. -->Chimps react more slowly to the faces of the macaques than to those of a human baby, even when they have never seen a baby before.

14. Back in the days this ability has held as our own, but now appeared that chimpanzees can remember faces like human being. -->

15. The phenomenon is barely explained just by the fact, that test animals have spent much time with their human-caretakers. --> the phenomenon is easily explained by the fact, that the test animals have spent a lot of time with their human caregivers.

16. Japans macaque faces was hard for them to find from the pictures, even though animals from this species live in the cage next to the chimpanzees. --> The faces of the Japanese macaque were difficult to recognise for them, even tough they lived in neighboring cages.

17. Both of these species might utilize the knowledge thay the face gives in their respective social lives the same way", evaluates Kyotos universities primate research institutes worker Tomonag. -->'' Both of these species might utilize the information gathered from the face similarly in their respective social lives,'' evaluates Tomonaga, who works at the Kyoto University's primate research institute.

18. Earlier this has been considered as an ability exclusive to us, however now it has turned out, that chimpanzees can recognize faces like humans. --> Before,  that skill had been viewed as inclusive only to humans, but now we know that chimpanzees also recognize faces similarly to humans..

19. Turning the picture into black and white on the other hand, hardly effected the recognition process. -->  On the other hand, turning the picture black and white, hardly had an effect on the recognition process.

20. Previously it has been thought to a be trait that only we own, but decently it has turned out that chimpanzees as well recognizes faces with a human-like efficiency. --> Previously, it was thought that only we own that skill, but recently it has turned out that the chimps also recognize faces with human-like efficiency.

21. Chimpanzees even reacted to the faces of human faces faster than the ones of a macaque, even though they have never seen a baby before. --> The chimps even reacted to the faces of human babies more quickly than those of a macaque, even while having never seen a baby.

22. The chimps responded faster to baby faces than the faces of macaques, even they haven't ever seen a baby. --> The faces of human babies were recognized more easily than the macaque's, even though the chimps had never seen a baby..

23. Before this has been know only our feature, but now is emerged that also chimpanzees can recognize faces as powerful as humans. --> Before, that skill had been viewed as a humane feature, but now we know that chimpanzees also recognize faces with human-like efficiency.


24. The phenomena isn't probably only explanated by the interaction with the test animals caretakers. --> The phenomena, is easily explained by the test-animals had been spending a lot of time with their human care-givers.

25. Before this was only kept as our feature, but now it shows, that also chimpanzees can recognize faces as efficiently as humans. -->Before, this feature was thought as a human one, but now it shows, that chimps also recognize  faces as efficiently as humans.

26. Chimps detected other chimpanzees faces faster than other pictures. --> The chimps detected the faces of other chimps faster than other pictures.

27. Propably this isn't just explained by that these subject animals have been with their keepers a lot. --> Probably, it is explained by the subject animals spending a lot of time with their keepers.

28. When the pictures of bananas were turned to black and white, it was just as like the bananas disappeared. --> When the pictures of the bananas were turned black and white, it was as if the bananas had disappeared.

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